It is better to be tied to any thorny bush than to be with a cross man.

It's best make changes little by little, the same as you'd put clothes upon a growing child.

Our curses on them that boil the eggs too hard! What use is an egg that is hard to any person on earth?

There is many a man without learning will get the better of a college-bred man, and will have better words, too.

It's a grand thing to be able to take your money in your hand and to think no more of it when it slips away from you than you would a trout that would slip back into the stream.

We would not give up our own country - Ireland - if we were to get the whole world as an estate, and the Country of the Young along with it.

My husband was in the war of the Crimea. It is terrible the hardships he went through‚ to be two months without going into a house‚ under the snow in trenches. And no food to get‚ maybe a biscuit in the day. And there was enough food there‚ he said‚ to feed all Ireland; but bad management‚ they could not get it.